Goodbye to ‘old order’: Of Kabuga and the friends who loved him
French Gendarmes stand guard next to a prison van transporting Felicien Kabuga, one of the last key fugitives wanted over the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, at the Paris court on May 19, 2020. PHOTO | AFP
Rwandan fugitive Felicien Kabuga, one of the masterminds of the Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994, appeared in a Paris court on Wednesday, and denied he killed anyone.
The elusive Kabuga, who has been on the run for 26 years and was finally arrested on the outskirts of Paris in a March 16 morning raid, said all the charges against him were lies. He loved Tutsis, he worked with them, he said. Kabuga founded and funded two of the deadliest weapons of the genocide; the propaganda radio RTLM and its cousin magazine “Kangura”, and machetes. Rwanda imported so many machetes in 1994, some accounts suggest it broke a record.
